BEHIND THE SCENES
NGS EXPEDITIONS GRANT
On the Inca Road
She was born in Switzerland,
raised in the United States
and Australia, served in the
Philippines with the Peace Corps,
and trekked through Vietnam.
But Karin Muller hadn't seen
enough of the world. She
dreamed of exploring the net
work of Inca roads that stretches
from Ecuador to Chile. So she
set out, traveling more than
3,000 miles by mule, horse, bus,
boat, train, plane, and on foot.
Karin's adventures included
rounding up vicunas, dancing in
an Ecuadorian festival with her
face smeared with blackened pig
fat, and climbing up to cliffside
burial chambers of the Chacha
poya (right) in Peru-an ancient
culture featured in "Quest for the
Lost Tombs" in this issue.
Along the Inca Road, Karin's
book published by National
Geographic, is available now.
Behind inHis Work
Tired from a long day hiking in Peru with photographer
Mark Moffett, biologist Doug Yu initially wasn't sure what
he was seeing. When Mark hunkered down to photograph
a plant, he seemed to have grown a long, wagging tail. Doug
soon realized that Mark was sitting on a very poisonous fer
de-lance snake. "I calmly screamed at him to get up," says
Doug. Snake and photographer escaped unharmed.
ARTBYRICHARD
THOMPSON
100
YEARS
AGO
September 1900
"When night came, and I sat shivering in some fetid hole, not fit
for a decent beast, with only a bamboo railing between it and the
pigsty, I often thought Chinese traveling an utter abomination."
-Isabella L. Bird
From her book, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, which was
reviewed in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
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